ADJECTIVE | all | instructive, informative | serving to instruct or enlighten or inform |
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Sounds | ihnstrah'ktihv | |
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Rhymes | abortive ... vituperative: 304 rhymes with ihv... |
Meaning | Serving to instruct or enlighten or inform. | |
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Synonym | informative | |
Narrower | clarifying, elucidative | That makes clear |
demonstrative, illustrative | Serving to demonstrate | |
didactic, didactical | instructive (especially excessively) | |
doctrinaire | stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | |
educational | Providing knowledge | |
educative | Resulting in education | |
explanatory | Serving or intended to explain or make clear | |
expository, expositive | Serving to expound or set forth | |
interpretative, interpretive | That provides interpretation | |
ostensive | manifestly demonstrative | |
preachy | Inclined to or marked by tedious moralization | |
See also | informative, informatory | Providing or conveying information |
Opposite | uninstructive | Failing to instruct |
Spanish | informativo, instructivo | |
Catalan | instructiu | |
Adverbs | instructively | in an informative manner |
Verbs | instruct | impart skills or knowledge to |
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